Oscar Tabárez He was dismissed this Friday as coach of the Uruguayan soccer team, the national federation reported in a statement, ending a process of 15 years and 8 months of the technical director at the head of the national team.
“The Executive Committee of the AUF informs that it has resolved to terminate the contract of Mr. Óscar Washington Tabárez and other members of the coaching staff of the senior team, “said the statement from the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF).
The decision is known after the four losses in a row in the last two dates for the South American World Cup that made Celeste fall to seventh place in the table, out of any qualifying option.
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The AUF text emphasizes that the Committee “has made this difficult decision by virtue of the present circumstances, committed to the near future and obtaining the results that we all hope.”
– The oldest coach –
The ‘Teacher‘ Tabárez, 74, thus culminates an extensive 15-year process as Uruguay’s technical director, a cycle that had made him the coach with the longest time in charge of the same soccer team.
What’s more, Tabarez had a first cycle as coach of the Celeste between 1988 and 1990.
The questions to its current continuity began to be felt strongly a month ago, after the triple date of October of the South American qualifiers ended in the direction of the World Cup Qatar-2022.
The team falls in front of Argentina 3-0 and Brazil 4-1, after having tied at home without goals with Colombia, they hit hard both among the fans and the internal of the selection.
At that time, the discomfort of the leaders was not so much due to the results as the lack of attitude of the team and the feeling of unease in the locker room, where the players would not have received strong messages from the coaching staff.
However, after meeting weeks ago with the coaching staff at the Celeste Complex, the national team’s training center, the leaders decided to give DT another chance.
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But that chance disappeared after the losses to Argentina (1-0) and Bolivia (3-0) on the last date of November, which left the Light blue in the seventh position of the table.
Tabárez leaves the selection after a successful process that transformed the image of the Celeste worldwide.
Under his baton, the squad regained the brilliance of yesteryear, qualified for three world championships in a row, reached the semifinals of South Africa-2010 and was fifth in Russia-2018. In addition, he won the 2011 Copa América in Argentina.
In its statement, the AUF Committee expresses “emphatically” that the decision of his termination “It does not imply ignoring the important contribution of Tabárez to Uruguayan soccer.”
“We salute and recognize the fundamental sporting achievements obtained in these 15 years, which once again placed Uruguay in the first places in world football.”
